Field-Direction Dependence of the Upper Critical Field in Organic Superconductors

Mihail D. Croitoru (1) , Manuel Houzet (2) , Alexandre I. Buzdin (1)

1 LOMA - Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine
2 DRFMC - Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée

In this work, we investigate the anisotropy of the in-plane critical field in conventional and spatially modulated phases of layered superconductors within the quasi-classical approach, taking into account the interlayer Josephson coupling. We show that the anisotropy of the onset of superconductivity may change dramatically in the FFLO state as compared with the conventional superconducting phase.

Mots clés: FFLO state; Anisotropy; Critical field

Domaines: Supraconductivité [cond-mat.supr-con]

Mihail D. Croitoru, Manuel Houzet, Alexandre I. Buzdin. Field-Direction Dependence of the Upper Critical Field in Organic Superconductors. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 2012, 25 (5), pp.1283-1287. ⟨10.1007/s10948-012-1595-0⟩. ⟨hal-00718076⟩